The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution

Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.

Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

I make no claims. I have set down the facts

It is the very pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.

Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth.

It is criminal to put our servicemen and women in harm's way and to put the lives of so many civilians on the line for the misguided frustrations of the Bush administration.

Success itself doesn't give you happiness. It's what you do with your success that gives you happiness.

Languages are the keys of science.

I don't keep my books around... they would embarrass me. When I finish writing my books, I kick them in the belly, and have done with them.

The basic story remains simple and never-ending. Stocks aren't lottery tickets. There's a company attached to every share.

And for a breath of ecstasy / Give all you have been, or could be.

I'm a dad, and that's really important to me, and I realize now that I'm a dad that it's a major part of my identity.